This is an analysis of Night Of Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

THE moon has left the sky, love,
The stars are hiding now,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababacaXadadaXacaeaeafaf
  • Stanza lengths: 24,
  • Metre: 0111011 011101 1101011 110101 0101011 1111010 0101011 1101010 1001011 110111 1111011 110111 0111011 1100110 1111011 11010010 1101011 110101 1111011 110111 0101011 1101010 1101011 1101010
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

be

Anaphora

the